à la king

[ah luh king, al-uh]

adjective

1. (of cooked fowl, fish, etc.) diced and served in a cream sauce containing mushrooms, pimiento, or green pepper.

   chicken à la king.

à la king

/ ɑː lɑː ˈkɪŋ, æ lə /

adjective

1. (usually postpositive) cooked in a cream sauce with mushrooms and green peppers

Word History and Origins

Origin of à la king¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

For years, CBS struggled to shake its prime-time sitcom formula to build shows around white men, a la “King of Queens,” “Everybody Loves Raymond” and “Two and a Half Men.”

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She branched out often with dishes such as chicken a la king and spaghetti and meatballs, but the food she made most often spoke to her Eastern European roots.

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So, a la King, he piles on the viscera: The novel’s smooth depiction of a worsening world is punctuated with harrowing depictions of shootings, self-immolation, suicide, bombings and even more grotesquely innovative killings.

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The CBS host, who often broadcasts live on election night, invited a few special guests too: results analyst “Steve Clucknacki” and “John ‘Chicken a la’ King” — the avian version of MSNBC’s numbers whiz Steve Kornacki and CNN’s John King.

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“One night it would be some sort of casserole, another might be something like chicken a la king, the next night could be meatloaf, which my dad loved. But I always loved when she made sizzling fish,” he says.

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